This is not the National Portrait Gallery in London. Or the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Even the Portland Art Gallery. But finally waiting for two years, Los Angeles finally caught a glimpse of Paul McCartney’s historic snapshot from the Beatles’ first American invasion.

McCartney’s photo – frankly, wide-eyed, sometimes blurry – is now at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills as of June 21. You can actually buy one.

But first, for those unfamiliar with McCartney’s Global Travel Photo Exhibition, there is a little backstory.

At the end of 1963, just before the Beatles boarded the Pan AM 101 flight, they shocked the world Ed Sullivan performs For its debut, McCartney brought himself a new camera – a sexy 35mm Pentax SLR. He walked around, almost all the photos: the top on the mop was wandering around the plane, the four were wandering around Central Park, their post-Sullivan cuts to Miami.

Then, McCartney obviously forgot all the pictures. They were boxed and stored…for the next 60 years.

When Sir Paul, like the rest of us - began to roll in the closet, flashed forward. At that time, he and his team rediscovered long-lost contact tables, negatives and color slides. The result is Eye of the Storma photo exhibition premiered at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2023. McCartney decided to take pictures on the road. The show, along with Brooklyn and Portland, visited museums in Virginia, Tokyo, and its current stop – San Francisco.

But for Los Angeles, McCartney did something different. Rather than offering exhibitions to Broad or LACMA or Annenberg, he and his team assembled a batch of slightly different images during the same period - including something that was previously unseen rearview mirrorand bring it to the Gagos, where the works may be more admirable. They can be acquired.

The 36 pieces on display - some solo images, some contact paper, dozens of frames - an ultra-limited version of the six to ten signature prints, priced between $15,000 and $85,000 (yes, every photo, every photo).

Think of it as a concert merchandise for billionaires - if your idea for Tee involves authentication and custom frameworks.

"Well, not exactly that," said gallery director Joshua Chu. “With from Eye of the Stormbut even these images look different in our show. And, yes, the biggest difference is that you can buy them. ”

Honestly, if you can afford it, why not? Although McCartney is known for his musical talent, McCartney proves to be a great photographer. And he and his Pentex are surely in the right place at the right time. "This is the only person I can think of where Paul's cultural influence took good photos of the exact moment you asked him to take a photo," Chuang pointed out.

At the time, the Beatles were one of the most photographed humans on Earth, which was what inspired these photos so much. They provided Paul's vision of what the Beatles saw when they landed in the United States. "The photos of his shared awe of what happened to them are almost a feeling," Chuang said. "Even they don't believe it."

Another reason to see the exhibition? It may never happen again. "Paul wasn't trying to pursue another career as a fine art photographer," Chuang said. “These are limited editions – six, eight, maybe ten – that’s it.”